[Gluster-users] Time Machine network backup on a Gluster volume

Kaleb S. KEITHLEY kkeithle at redhat.com
Tue Nov 13 16:15:10 UTC 2018


On 11/13/18 11:06 AM, Andrew Spott wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I would like to use a Gluster volume (3 disks over 3 nodes, replication
> 3) as a time machine backup solution for a few Macbooks.
> 
> Has anyone done this kind of thing?  The Samba vfs_glusterfs plugin
> seems to no longer be maintained

The gluster VFS is maintained in Samba, see, e.g.
https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/master/source3/modules/vfs_glusterfs.c


> (https://github.com/gluster/samba-glusterfs), and I'm not sure if NFS is
> supported for time machine backups.

AFAIK timemachine is agnostic about the file system. My own home setup
uses an afpoe file system mounted from my Airport Extreme.

--

Kaleb



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